Abstract
Intersectoral cooperation is regarded as a promising strategy in setting-oriented prevention and health promotion for interdepartmental, joint efforts towards improved health equity. This paper deals with models of intersectoral cooperation in municipal health promotion. It frames the methodology and the central results of a literature and database search (on behalf of the Federal Centre for Health Education, BZgA) and presents the partial results regarding the models of intersectoral cooperation. Of 48 publications analyzed for the review, nine publications each present different models of intersectoral cooperation. The models describe typical processes in the context of the joint work as detailed step sequences and formulate general recommendations as success factors of intersectoral cooperation. With reference to the findings of the review, it can be concluded that models for intersectoral cooperation have not yet been systematized and consequently have not been researched for transferability into specific fields of practice.
Highlights
Providing health care to as many citizens as possible in post-industrial and ageing societies is associated with enormous challenges
People with a low socio-economic status are affected by health inequalities and disadvantage [3,4]
Low income or poverty leads to cumulative health risks, which manifest themselves among other things in unequal access to healthy living environments [5,6]
Summary
Providing health care to as many citizens as possible in post-industrial and ageing societies is associated with enormous challenges. Low income or poverty leads to cumulative health risks, which manifest themselves among other things in unequal access to healthy living environments [5,6] In addition to this factor of socio-economic status, which highlights the parallel between social and health inequalities, other groups of people are considered vulnerable. As an association of 60 institutions and organizations, the cooperation network pursues the goals of networking, transparency, and quality and supports the exchange of information as an interface between practice, science, and politics This national alliance finds its international counterpart in the European network Closing the Gap—Strategies to Tackle Health Inequalities in Europe, in which 22 national partners from the EU member states are involved and in the framework of which national strategies to reduce socially induced inequalities in health are documented and further developed [21]. This paper only presents the results of theoretical models and practical approaches to intersectoral cooperation in health promotion
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